Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Terrell to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, October 5, 1893.

Mr. Terrell reports that the Turkish Government claims that the persons referred to in his telegram of October 2 must be regarded as subjects of the Sultan. He says that the crime for which they were arrested is their having emigrated to, and become naturalized in, the United States without the Sultan’s consent, and that the purpose of the arrest was that of expulsion from the country. He adds that he has given full particulars in a dispatch which follows.